Garment and method of making same



Juhe 5, 1928.

G. w. SPALDING GARMENT AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed Sept. 21, 1927 Patented June 5, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WANTON SPALDING, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE ROYAL WORCESTER CORSET COMPANY, A CORPORATION 01' MASSACHUSETTS.

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Application filed September In stitchlngzin sections .or gores of elas-- tic fabrics, comprising rubber threads or strands, in making various garments, said rubber threads or strands are often pierced 5 by the needles of the sewingmachines so that they are cut through or weakened, thereby becoming easily broken, when the gap ment is stretched or under tension. These cut or broken strands are liable to draw out when the garment is under tension, thereby rendering the garment more or less imperfeet or unsightly.

The present invention has for its object to avoid this objection, and this result is arrived at by vulcanizing the edges of the clastic sections or gores to be stitched, before they are sewed into the garments. When the edges of elastic gores or sections have been thus vulcanized the rubber threads or strands are caused to adhere to thetextile cotton or silk threads or yarns of the fabric,

thus making the vulcanized edges practically homogeneous, so that if the rubber threads arepierced or cut by the needles of the sewing machines in making up the garments these rubber threads are so anchored or fastenedin that they cannot pull out even when out or broken. Y 7 f In carrying the invention into effect the edges of the elastic fabrics which areto be stitched intoj garments, and which contain rubber threads-or strands, are preferably fed through 'a guide or holderv to which-is also fed a rubber cement.

of elastic fabrics thusvtreated are then subjected, for about fifteen minutes," to the ac tion of heat at a temperature of about 240 F. thus vulcanizing the edges of the elastic fabrics so that the rubber threads or strands 40 in said "fabrics are caused to adhereto. the

textile threads or yarns of the fabrics, and

are thus anchored in place. so that, even'if A cut, or broken, they cannot pull out.

The sections or gores 21,1927. swarm. 221,004.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. l is a broken-out section of a girdle embodying the invention, and Fig. 2 is a detail view of one of the elastic gores or sections having vulcanized edges. Referring to the'drawin 12 denotes sections or gores of elastic abric comprising rubber threads or strands, and 13 denotes the non-elastic sections of the garment, which may be provided with stocking holders the straps 14 of which are broken away for simplicity of illustration. In other words, 65 the girdle shown is of usual construction excepting as to the embodiment of the present invention. The edges 15 of the elastic sections or ores'12 have been treated and vulcanized by the means hereinbefore set forth, and when stitched-in these vulcanized edges are wholly or partially covered by the textile non-elastic sections of the arment. While the invention is herein il ustrated as being a plied to a' girdle, it will be on derstood that .said invention may be embodied in other garments, such as corsets, corselets, brassieres, bandeaux, step-ins and other compressing or confimn garments comprising sections of elastic abrics hav- !0 inglrubber threads or strands. aving thus described my. invention I claim and desire to secure b Letters Patent: A garment comprising stitched-in sections of elastic fabric the edges of which contain a rubber cement, wsaid sections comprising rubber threads, and said edges with the rubber 'c'ementtherein. being vulcanized to anchor the rubber threads at saidedges, the stitches assing through said vulcanized -edges-an the body of t e garment. n testimony whereof I aflix "my signa- GEoReir WANTON srALDING. 

